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st: RE: error with xtset


From   "Hoffman, George" <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: error with xtset
Date   Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:39:15 +0000

You probably have several rows of missing data in group and year.
You could:
tab group year, mis
drop if group==.&year==.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Prakash Singh
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 4:56 AM
To: statalist
Subject: st: error with xtset

Dear all, I am working with unbalanced polled cross section data which having 4 district and 2 years information. when I am using xtset I am getting error which says repeated time values within panel.

 xtset  group year
repeated time values within panel
r(451);

 the tabulation of entity and year is given below

tab group year

           |         Year
     group |      2004       2006 |     Total
-----------+----------------------+----------
         1 |       262        342 |       604
         2 |       188        247 |       435
         3 |       103        130 |       233
         4 |        70         95 |       165
-----------+----------------------+----------
     Total |       623        814 |     1,437

Could anyone suggest what is wrong with my command or data.

Regards
Prakash
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